ThePrint photos of the week: India’s biggest hydro project to Bihar polls & Rahul Gandhi’s ‘H-Bomb’

In PhotosOfTheWeek we bring you pictures clicked by ThePrint’s photojournalists, video journalists and reporters this past week.

India’s largest hydro power station, the 2,000 MW Subansiri Lower Hydro Electric Project (SLHEP), in the process of getting commissioned; the mega project is located at the border of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam | ThePrint/Suraj Singh Bisht

New Delhi: From India’s largest hydropower project taking shape on the Arunachal-Assam border, street protests in Delhi over rising air pollution levels and SC’s order on stray animals, to the rough and tumble of Bihar elections & Rahul Gandhi’s ‘H-Bomb’—this week in photos, captured by ThePrint’s photojournalists.

Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi addressing a press conference on ‘vote chori’, in New Delhi on 5 November, 2025 | ThePrint/Praveen Jain

Students holding a demonstration at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar to call attention to rising air pollution levels in NCR, on 6 November, 2025 | ThePrint/Suraj Singh Bisht

A woman comforts a stray dog during a protest at New Delhi’s Connaught Place against Supreme Court’s order for removal of all stray animals from public places, on 7 November, 2025 | ThePrint/Suraj Singh Bisht

Strategically-placed hoarding of CM Nitish Kumar and challenger Tejashwi Yadav seen in Patna ahead of polling day in Bihar | ThePrint/Praveen Jain

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar at a public meeting at DN College playground to canvas for JDU candidate from Masaurhi, Arun Manjhi, on the last day of campaigning for the first phase | ThePrint/Praveen Jain

Women voters hold up their voter ID cards as they stand in queue to cast their vote at a polling booth in Patna on 6 November, 2025 | ThePrint/Praveen Jain